ABSTRACT
This chapter sets out to review recent trends in research and policy on parents and pre-school education. The outline has still to be filled in, but it seems that good practice approaches are more likely to include encouragement for parents to work with their own children and to be involved in the school curriculum. The British Child Health and Education Study showed that ten-year-olds did better at school if their parents were interested enough in their education to make contact with the school. And also if their mothers had helped in their pre-school group. The first it says about the reading schemes with older children; the second is about parent and community education. People need further study to lay bare the process of skill-plus-motivation at work between parent and child.
